The Shadow
Melanie Raabe
"Vienna was giving Norah the cold shoulder."
"Vienna was giving Norah the cold shoulder."
"'Come on, Erik!' Josh's sneakers disappeared over a mussel-encrusted rock ridge left exposed by the low tide."
"When Taryn Cornick’s sister was killed, she was carrying a book."
"The fifth-floor hallway was darker than reported, and there was an awkward dogleg near the stairwell that their local recon hadn’t bothered to map; it smelled of garlic, mold, and dry rot even though the hotel was billed as a Byzantine five-star."
"Lynch leaned back in his chair after he slipped his phone back in his jacket pocket."
"Pontoons crashed across ocean swells."
"here is no going back now. The taxi glides away from the house, down the street towards South End Green, retreating effortlessly from my family home, away from the expensive brickwork and tended gardens I will never see again."
"The third lake felt inhabited. Or like it once was."
"The Boston public school system is a mystery to me."
"One evening the pastor and i were in his study, pressing our latest finds."
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